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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
The term layo'ers for meddlers was used if you asked something you weren't supposed to know about.......Like I would say to my mother 'what's that' and she would say 'it's layo'ers for meddlers and crutches for lame ducks'
'Gedding agate' was to get going and was used extensively by weavers......in 'I am just going to ged agate' to get the looms started up.
The 'there's a nail in't plank' well my grandad used something similar......if you asked him why he was late he used to say 'I've a bone in me leg'.......and I can't shed more light on it than that.
And if you were useless they did say you weren't fit to wrap toffees at 'Toffee' Hodsons.
See what you've started Garinda!
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But where do the sayings come from? That's the interesting question. I know that a "meddler" could be a term for someone who interferes. eg. "You're always "meddlin' in other folks business" but what on earth is a "layo'er"?